Tory Burch has become a much more interesting designer to me in the past few seasons. She's managed to simultaneously maintain her posh uptown demographic, but has also made a few forays into edgier, more street savvy designs. This Crescent straw tote, however, leaves me feeling a ...

Lanvin is the oldest surviving couture house in Paris. Everyone thinks that it's Chanel, but Lanvin predates Chanel by ages. So, all the fashion that we think of as French that we also associate as Chanel actually has an earlier precursor. You can totally see those Parisian roots coming through in this ...

Comme des Garçons has launched a limited edition Black Label fashion range in answer to the financial crisis. The French label's creative director Rei Kawakubo says the back-to-basics range is an "emergency reaction to the recession."

Eleven Black Label outlets will open in some of the world's fashion capitals. London's ...

Marc Jacobs, who can usually do no wrong in the eyes of many modern fashionistas, has stirred up quite a controversy with his Rana (which means "frog" in Spanish) clutch. It's not the choice of skin that's got the ladies up in arms, (the delicate sheen of the kangaroo has received universal ...